RADIO HOST Maajid Nawaz has launched a seething attack on the Muslim Council of Britain as he accused them of making all Muslims look like a bunch of extremists.

In a fiery rant on his LBC show, Nawaz said the council is “making all of us [Muslims] look bad” by directly challenging the Government’s Prevent scheme by announcing a blue print for an alternative counter-terror initiative.

Ripping into the MCB, Nawaz, who is a Muslim himself, blasted: “What does the Muslim Council of Britain go and do if not prove every anti-Muslim stereotype that is out there. Let me explain why.

“You can't argue with with one side of your mouth that Muslims are part of Britain, part of our nation, part of this country and then set up a rival counter extremism plan in isolation from the rest of the country's plan.”

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Maajid Nawaz has launched a seething attack on the Muslim Council of Britain

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The LBC host insisted the council cannot claim that Muslims on one hand are loyal Britons and then refuse to cooperate with the Government plan to deal with radicalisation.

Nawaz added such reasoning was why people consider Muslims to be “Trojan horses”.

He continued: “Imagine the reverse of that if the government started working with the BNP to stop far right terrorists.

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Nawaz also called on the MCB to take leadership of the community they are supposed to represent

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“How would we feel how would you feel how would every single ethnic minority in this country feel if people were telling them it's OK to work with racists to stop violent racists and that's the equivalent of what you've just said.

“You've said it's OK to work with Muslim extremists who may be homophobic anti-Semitic and anti-woman and a whole bunch of other stuff just to stop the violence.

“No I'm sorry Muslim Council of Britain that simply doesn't work,that kind of policy was tried in the early days and it failed is the reason we're in such a mess that we are in today.”

The fiery host also issued a new invite for the council to come on his show and “defend themselves”.

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Nawaz also called on the MCB to take leadership of the community they are supposed to represent.

Finishing his savage tirade against the council, Nawaz said: “You claim you are the leading Muslim community representative organisation in this country, well then take leadership, take leadership, show leadership, work with the state and the communities to bridge that divide that's emerged between our communities and the government in challenging extremism step into that void and stop making us all look bad.”